"Women have overtaken men at every level of education in developed countries around the world.
And girls are now more confident of getting better-paid, professional jobs than their flagging male counterparts.
International education figures, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, show a consistent picture, across cultures and continents, of women achieving better results than men.
The OECD survey is a detailed comparison of education achievement and spending in 43 developed countries.
The success of girls is a complete reversal of what would have been expected a generation ago, said Andreas Schleicher, head of analysis at the OECD's education directorate.
And he says that the 1990s have seen a remarkable change in women's expectations and achievements.
The survey found that in almost every developed country, 15-year-old girls are more confident than boys about getting high-income jobs.
For example, in the United Kingdom, 63% of girls expect to have "white collar, high-skilled" jobs by the time they are 30, compared to only 51% of boys.
This picture of girls with higher expectations than boys is repeated in the United States, Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Australia.
And girls have good reason to be more confident than boys, because academically, around the globe, they are more successful - which is likely to lead to higher-income jobs. "
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